Thomas Grube | |
|---|---|
 Thomas Grube | |
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) Berlin |
| Education | |
| Occupations |
|
Thomas Grube (born 1971) is a German photographer, film director, script writer and film. With his partner Uwe Dierks, he has written scripts and directed films about classical music, such as Rhythm Is It!
Born in Berlin, Grube studied political science, American studies and Eastern European studies at the Freie Universität Berlin as well as film and television business at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. At the same time, he worked as director and producer. [1]
In 1993, he founded his first production company, with which he made short films, reports and music films as author, director and film producer. His first long film was Love is the Message in 1995. The music film (among others with Sven Väth, WestBam, Kid Paul, Moby, Cosmic Baby) was released by Studio K7 and is a comprehensive documentation of the early Techno generation of which he himself was a member. In 1996, Grube met his partner Uwe Dierks . Both were strongly inspired by the personality and music of the American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein and shifted their focus to the genre of classical music. Together they realised various documentaries and music films as directors and producers, including Claudio Abbado, Plácido Domingo, Christoph Eschenbach, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, Anne Sophie Mutter and Li Yundi. [1]
In 1999, Grube and Dierks founded, together with Andrea Thilo , the company Boomtown Media GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin. Since then, Grube has realised numerous documentary films for television and cinema as director and producer. For Warschau Express, he was nominated for the German Film Award in 2000. The documentary Rhythm Is It! , with Enrique Sánchez Lansch about a community outreach project of Berliner Philharmoniker with Simon Rattle, received its premiere at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival 2004, and won the Bavarian Film Award, and in 2005 the German Film Award. In February 2008, his film Trip to Asia (world premiere at the Berlin Festival) was released in German cinemas. Trip to Asia, the first feature film about the mysterious inner life of the Berliner Philharmoniker and its chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle, received the Tiempo del Historia Award for "Best Documentary" at the 2008 Valladolid International Film Festival. Rhythm Is It! is one of the most successful documentaries in German cinema. [2]
As a producer, Grube was responsible for the cinema documentaries Porgy and Me - In the World of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (world premiere Hof International Film Festival 2009), Friedensschlag - Das Jahr der Entscheidung (world premiere Berlin International Film Festival 2010; PDF; 135-kB) by Gerardo Milsztein or Cinema Jenin - The Story of a Dream (world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) by Marcus Vetter 2011. The documentary film Friedensschlag, which was released in German cinemas in 2010, received the Deutscher Kamerapreis in the same year ("Best documentary film"). The project Cinema Jenin was awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films – Die Brücke 2011. The film was also awarded the German Camera Prize 2012 and was released by Wild Bunch in German cinemas in June 2012. [3]
In 2014 he accompanied the organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter on the way to the creation of his International Touring Organ. [4] The film The Sound of my Life was released in 2014. In the years 2014 to 2016, Grube accompanied the 150th anniversary of the BASF group in Europe, the US, South America and India with the feature film Experiment 150. The world premiere of Experiment 150 took place in 2016 [1] at the 12th Festival des deutschen Films in Ludwigshafen.
Besides his work as author and director, Grube also realises commercials as director and is responsible for the production company BOOMTOWN MEDIA as film producer. Grube is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie.
Sir Simon Denis Rattle is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018. He has been the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra since September 2017. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as one of the world's best living conductors.
The Berlin Philharmonic is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world.
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010).
Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon is a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Cafe. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement, and has been noted for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships.
The Salzburg Easter Festival is a classical music and opera festival held every year over the extended week before Easter in Salzburg, Austria since 1967.
Enrique Sánchez Lansch is a Spanish-German film director and screenwriter.
Jaka Bizilj is a German writer, promoter, and film producer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Cinema for Peace Foundation.
Udi Aloni is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action.
The Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.
Romuald Karmakar is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of a Bengali father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He has won several national and international awards, including the German National Film Award in Gold in 1996 for Der Totmacher (Deathmaker). His work has been honored with several retrospectives at festivals and cinematheques. In 2008, the MoMA celebrated his film Das Himmler-Projekt as one of the top 250 most important artistic acquisitions of the Museum since 1980. A member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Karmakar is internationally regarded for his honest representation of the less attractive aspects of society by focusing on those perpetrators responsible for these downfalls. Karmakar is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2012–13). He has been invited as one of the four artists to represent Germany at the German Pavilion at the Art Venice Biennale in 2013.
Jeffrey Friedman is an American filmmaker. In 2021, he and Rob Epstein won a Grammy Award for their work on the documentary film Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch. The film documents a project undertaken by conductor Simon Rattle and choreographer Royston Maldoom to stage a performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with a cast of 250 children recruited from Berlin's public schools. The choreographer inspired the young people from 25 countries in demanding rehearsals to work seriously and act as an ensemble, overcoming obstacles and frustration, and to find self-confidence based on body perception. A successful performance was given for 3000 spectators in the Berlin Treptow Arena in January 2003.
That Man: Peter Berlin is a 2005 documentary about the popular gay icon Peter Berlin directed by Jim Tushinski. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.
Mehmet Aktaş is a Kurdish filmmaker, producer, author and journalist born in Turkey but living in Germany. He is founder and chief executive of the film production and distribution company Mîtosfilm in Berlin.
Marcus Attila Vetter is a German documentary filmmaker.
Hannes Michael Schalle is an Austrian director, writer, producer and film composer.
Adekunle “Nodash” Adejuyigbe, is a Nigerian film maker and producer; He has served as a producer and executive producer for several documentaries and commercials for international organisations and is considered one of the most outstanding directors and one of the most sought after cinematographers of the New Nigerian Cinema.
Accentus Music is a German classical music record label and production company founded in March 2010 in Leipzig, Germany, where the company is based. The label produces audio recordings (CD) and video (DVD/Blu-ray).
George Michael: A Different Story is a 2004 documentary film about the English singer, songwriter and record producer George Michael. It follows Michael's life from joining Wham! in 1981, to the present-day covering his career as a solo artist including personal and professional gain and loss. The film is a British venture produced by Aegean Films with Gorilla Entertainment Limited serving as distributor.
Anna Hepp is a German filmmaker, artist and photographer.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
